Some Big Lies of Science

[MikeWB]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=19653

Some Big Lies of Science

by Dr. Denis G. Rancourt

   
Global Research, June 10, 2010
       

"[T]he majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed."– Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture (Literature), 2005
The maintenance of the hierarchical structures that control our lives depends on Pinter's "vast tapestry of lies upon which we feed." Therefore, the main institutions that embed us into the hierarchy, such as schools, universities, and mass media and entertainment corporations, have a primary function to create and maintain this tapestry. This includes establishment scientists and all service intellectuals in charge of "interpreting" reality.

In fact, the scientists and "experts" define reality in order to bring it into conformity  with the always-adapting dominant mental tapestry of the moment. They also invent and build new branches of the tapestry that serve specific power groups by providing new avenues of exploitation. These high priests are rewarded with high class status.

The Money Lie

The economists are a most significant example. It is probably not an accident that in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century the economists were the first professional analysts to be "broken in," in a battle that defined the limits of academic freedom in universities. The academic system would from that point on impose a strict operational separation between inquiry and theorizing as acceptable and social reform as unacceptable [1].

Any academic wishing to preserve her position understood what this meant. As a side product, academics became virtuosos at nurturing a self-image of importance despite this fatal limitation on their societal relevance, with verbiage such as: The truth is our most powerful weapon, the pen is mightier than the sword, a good idea can change the world, reason will take us out of darkness, etc.

So the enterprise of economics became devoted to masking the lie about money. Bad lending practice, price fixing and monopolistic controls were the main threats to the natural justice of a free market, and occurred only as errors in a mostly self-regulating system that could be moderated via adjustments of interest rates and other "safeguards."

Meanwhile no mainstream economic theory makes any mention of the fact that money itself is created wholesale in a fractional reserve banking system owned by secret private interests given a licence to fabricate and deliver debt that must be paid back (with interest) from the real economy, thereby continuously concentrating ownership and power over all local and regional economies.

The rest of us have to earn money rather than simply fabricate it and we never own more when we die. The middle class either pays rent or a mortgage. Wage slavery is perpetuated and degraded in stable areas and installed in its most vicious varieties in all newly conquered territories.

It is quite remarkable that the largest exploitation scam (private money creation as debt) ever enacted and applied to the entire planet does not figure in economic theories.

Economists are so busy modeling the ups and downs of profits, returns, employment figures, stock values, and the benefits of mergers for mid-level exploiters that they don't notice their avoidance of the foundational elements. They model the construction schedule while refusing to acknowledge that the terrain is an earthquake zone with vultures circling overhead.

Meanwhile the financiers write and re-write the rules themselves and again this process does not figure in macroeconomic theories. The only human element that economists consider in their "predictive" mathematical models is low-level consumer behaviour, not high-level system manipulation. Corruption is the norm yet it does not figure. The economies, cultures and infrastructures of nations are wilfully destroyed in order to enslave via new and larger national debts for generations into the future while economists forecast alleged catastrophic consequences of defaulting on these debts...

Management tools for the bosses and smoke and mirrors for the rest of us – thank you expert economists.

The Medicine is Health Lie

We've all heard some MD (medical doctor) interviewed on the radio gratuitously make the bold proposal that life expectancy has increased thanks to modern medicine. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Life expectancy has increased in First World countries thanks to a historical absence of civil and territorial wars, better and more accessible food, less work and non-work accidents, and better overall living and working conditions. The single strongest indicator of personal health within and between countries is economy status, irrespective of access to medical technology and pharmaceuticals.

It's worse than that because medicine actually has a negative impact on health. Medical errors (not counting misattributed deaths from correctly administered "treatments") are the third leading cause of death in the US, after heart disease and cancer, and there is a large gap between this conservative underestimate in the number of medical error deaths and the fourth leading cause of death [2]. Since medicine can do little for heart disease and cancer and since medicine has only a small statistical positive impact in the area of trauma interventions, we conclude that public health would increase if all MDs simply disappeared. And think of all the time loss and stress that sick people would save...

One of the most dangerous places in society is the hospital. Medical errors include misdiagnoses, bad prescriptions, prescriptions of medications that should not be combined, unnecessary surgery, unnecessary or badly administered treatments including chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and corrective surgeries.

The lie extends to the myth that MDs anywhere near understand the human body. And this well guarded lie encourages us to put our faith in doctors, thereby opening the door to a well orchestrated profit bonanza for big pharma.

The first thing that Doctors Without Borders (MSF) volunteers need to do in order to contribute significantly in disaster zones is to "forget their medical training" and get to work on the priority tasks at hand: water, food, shelter, and disease propagation prevention; not vaccinating, or operating, or prescribing medication... Public health comes from safety, stability, social justice, and economic buying power, not MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) units and prescription drugs.

These bone heads routinely apply unproven "recommended treatments" and prescribe dangerous drugs for everything from high blood pressure from a sedentary lifestyle and bad nutrition, to apathy at school, to anxiety in public places, to post-adolescence erectile function, to non-conventional sleep patterns, and to all the side effects from the latter drugs.

In professional yet nonetheless remarkable reversals of logic, doctors prescribe drugs to remove symptoms that are risk indicators rather than address the causes of the risks, thereby only adding to the assault on the body.

It's unbelievable the number that medicine has done on us: Just one more way to keep us stupid (ignorant about our own bodies) and artificially dependent on the control hierarchy. Economically disadvantaged people don't die from not having access to medical "care" – They die from the life constraints and liabilities directly resulting from poverty. How many MDs have stated this obvious truth on the radio?

Environmental Science Lies

Exploitation via resource extraction, land use expropriation, and wage slavery creation and maintenance are devastating to indigenous populations and to the environment on continental scales. It is therefore vital to cover up the crimes under a veil of expert analysis and policy development diversion. A valued class of service intellectuals here is composed of the environmental scientists and consultants.

Environmental scientists naively and knowingly work hand in hand with finance-corporate shysters, mainstream media, politicians, and state and international bureaucrats to mask real problems and to create profit opportunities for select power elites. Here are notable examples of specific cases.

Freon and Ozone

Do you know of anyone who has been killed by the ozone hole?

The 1987 Montreal Protocol banning chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) is considered a textbook case where science and responsible governance lead to a landmark treaty for the benefit of the Earth and all its inhabitants. How often does that happen?

At about the time that the DuPont patent on Freon(TM), the most widely used CFC refrigerant in the world, was expiring the mainstream media picked up on otherwise arcane scientific observations and hypotheses about ozone concentration in the upper atmosphere near the poles.

There resulted an international mobilization to criminalize CFCs and DuPont developed and patented a replacement refrigerant that was promptly certified for use.

A Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded in 1995 for a laboratory demonstration that CFCs could deplete ozone in simulated atmospheric conditions. In 2007 it was shown that the latter work may have been seriously flawed by overestimating the depletion rate by an order of magnitude, thereby invalidating the proposed mechanism for CFC-driven ozone depletion [3]. Not to mention that any laboratory experiment is somewhat different from the actual upper atmosphere... Is the Nobel tainted by media and special interest lobbying?

It gets better. It turns out that the Dupont replacement refrigerant is, not surprisingly, not as inert as was Freon. As a result it corrodes refrigerator cycle components at a much faster rate. Where home refrigerators and freezers lasted forever, they now burn out in eight years or so. This has caused catastrophic increases in major appliance contributions to land fill sites across North America; spurred on by the green propaganda for obscenely efficient electrical consumptions of the new appliances under closed door (zero use) conditions.

In addition, we have been frenzied into avoiding the sun, the UV index keeps our fear of cancer and our dependence on the medical establishment alive, and a new sun block industry a la vampire protection league has been spawned. And of course star university chemists are looking for that perfect sun block molecule that can be patented by big pharma. And as soon as it is, I predict a surge in media interviews with skin cancer experts...

Acid Rain on the Boreal Forest

In the seventies it was acid rain. Thousands of scientists from around the world (Northern Hemisphere) studied this "most pressing environmental problem on the planet." The boreal forest is the largest ecosystem on Earth and its millions of lakes were reportedly being killed by acid from the sky.

Coal burning plants spewed out sulphides into the atmosphere causing the rain to be acidic. The acid rain was postulated to acidify the soils and lakes in the boreal forest but the acidification was virtually impossible to detect. Pristine lakes in the hearts of national parks had to be studied for decades in attempts to detect a statistically significant acidification.

Meanwhile the lakes and their watersheds were being destroyed by the cottage industry, agriculture, forestry, mining, over fishing and tourism. None of the local and regional destruction was studied or exposed. Instead, scientists turned their gaze to distant coal burning plants, atmospheric distribution, and postulated chemical reactions occurring in rain droplets. One study found that the spawning in aquarium of one fish species was extremely sensitive to acidity (pH). Long treatises about cation charge balance and transport were written and attention was diverted away from the destruction on the ground towards a sanitized problem of atmospheric chemistry that was the result of industrialization and progress rather than being caused by identifiable exploiters.

As a physicist and Earth scientist turned environmental scientist, I personally read virtually every single scientific paper written about acid rain and could not find an example of a demonstrated negative impact on lakes or forests from acid rain. In my opinion, contrary to the repeated claims of the scientist authors, the research on acid rain demonstrates that acid rain could not possibly have been the problem.

This model of elite-forces-coordinated exploiter whitewashing was to play itself out on an even grander scale only decades later with global warming.

Global Warming as a Threat to Humankind

In 2005 and 2006, several years before the November 2009 Climategate scandal burst the media bubble that buoyed public opinion towards acceptance of carbon credits, cap and trade, and the associated trillion dollar finance bonanza that may still come to pass, I exposed the global warming cooptation scam in an essay that Alexander Cockburn writing in The Nation called "one of the best essays on greenhouse myth-making from a left perspective" [4][5][6].

My essay prompted David F. Noble to research the question and write The Corporate Climate Coup to expose how the media embrace followed the finance sector's realization of the unprecedented potential for revenues that going green could represent [7].

Introductory paragraphs from Global Warming: Truth or Dare? are as follows [4]:
"I also advance that there are strong societal, institutional, and psychological motivations for having constructed and for continuing to maintain the myth of a global warming dominant threat (global warming myth, for short). I describe these motivations in terms of the workings of the scientific profession and of the global corporate and finance network and its government shadows."

"I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed by military might; and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth. In my opinion, activists who, using any justification, feed the global warming myth have effectively been co-opted, or at best neutralized."
Other passages read this way [4]:
"Environmental scientists and government agencies get funding to study and monitor problems that do not threaten corporate and financial interests. It is therefore no surprise that they would attack continental-scale devastation from resource extraction via the CO2 back door. The main drawback with this strategy is that you cannot control a hungry monster by asking it not to shit as much."

"Global warming is strictly an imaginary problem of the First World middleclass. Nobody else cares about global warming. Exploited factory workers in the Third World don't care about global warming. Depleted uranium genetically mutilated children in Iraq don't care about global warming. Devastated aboriginal populations the world over also can't relate to global warming, except maybe as representing the only solidarity that we might volunteer."

"It's not about limited resources. ["The amount of money spent on pet food in the US and Europe each year equals the additional amount needed to provide basic food and health care for all the people in poor countries, with a sizeable amount left over." (UN Human Development Report, 1999)] It's about exploitation, oppression, racism, power, and greed. Economic, human, and animal justice brings economic sustainability which in turn is always based on renewable practices. Recognizing the basic rights of native people automatically moderates resource extraction and preserves natural habitats. Not permitting imperialist wars and interventions automatically quenches nation-scale exploitation. True democratic control over monetary policy goes a long way in removing debt-based extortion. Etc."
 
And there is a thorough critique of the science as band wagon trumpeting and interested self-deception [4]. Climategate only confirms what should be obvious to any practicing scientist: That science is a mafia when it's not simply a sleeping pill.

Conclusion

It just goes on and on. What is not a lie?

Look at the recent H1N1 scam – another textbook example. It's farcical how far these circuses go: Antiseptic gels in every doorway at the blink of an eye; high school students getting high from drinking the alcohol in the gels; out datedness of the viral strain before the pre-paid vaccine can be mass produced; unproven effectiveness; no requirement to prove effectiveness; government guarantees to corporate manufacturers against client lawsuits; university safety officers teaching students how to cough; etc.

Pure madness. Has something triggered our genetically ingrained First World stupidity reflex? Is this part of our march towards fascism [8]?

Here is another one. Educators promote the lie that we learn because we are taught. This lie of education is squarely denounced by radical educators [9][10].

University professors design curricula as though the students actually learn every element that is delivered whereas the truth is that students don't learn the delivered material and everyone only learns what they learn. One could dramatically change the order in which courses are delivered and it would make no measurable difference in how much students learn. Students deliver nonsense and professors don't care. Obedience and indoctrination are all that matter so the only required skill is bluffing. Students know this and those that don't don't know what they know, don't know themselves [8][9][10].

Pick any expert opinion or dominant paradigm: It's part of a racket.

We can't know the truth because the truth is brutal.

Denis G. Rancourt was a tenured and full professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He was trained as a physicist and practiced physics, Earth sciences, and environmental science, areas in which he was funded by a national agency and ran an internationally recognized laboratory. He published over 100 articles in leading scientific journals. He developed popular activism courses and was an outspoken critic of the university administration and a defender of Palestinian rights. He was fired for his dissidence in 2009. [See www.academicfreedom.ca]

[Christopher Marlowe]

It appears that among the real reasons for the university's attempts to discipline me since September 2005 and for its recent most harsh actions against me under President Allan Rock's mandate might be the administration's opposition to my political views about the Palestine-Israel conflict, which, starting in 2005, I have expressed in articles, on radio, in my blog postings, at public venues, and in my classes.  In September 2005 the dean cancelled my Physics and the Environment course following a complaint (regarding an email comment about Zionism), channelled through the university's Canadian Studies Institute director Pierre Anctil to the VP-Academic.  A complaint against an invited speaker in the course, Professor Michel Chossudovsky – who spoke about Middle East geopolitics, from the Jewish Student Association then gave rise to a sustained but failed attempt to discipline me.  In 2006 I invited two Canadian-Palestinian speakers to address the class in my Science in Society course.  This was followed by a damning January-2007 editorial in The Ottawa Citizen and I was subsequently removed from teaching all the first-year courses that I had developed.  The Ottawa Citizen is a CanWest newspaper and its director is a member of the university's Board of Governors.2  CanWest Global Communications Corporation is a staunch advocate and supporter of Israeli policy.  In 2007 I criticized the university's official position on the academic boycott of Israel on my UofOWatch.blogspot.com blog.  The repression against me intensified when new university president Allan Rock, a staunch supporter of Israeli policy,3  arrived on the scene in July 2008.  I was disciplined for the UofOWatch blog with an unpaid suspension in September 2008, by a decision of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors (EBOG).  The latter suspension was followed by many more severe actions against me (see below) and is being used by the university as an argument in my dismissal.  
http://rancourt.academicfreedom.ca/comp ... le/25.html

[DieDaily]

I grew up in an academic family and was a university-brat for the first 25 years of my life. I worked and researched at a university in Physics. I must say it was one of the least tolerant and rational places I've encountered. The arrogance, sometimes including my own at the time, is unbelievable. My father, a world-class Biochemist and staunch fighter against political correctness, used to joke that "Scientific progress happens in discrete steps. They are called funerals." I agree.

I agree with most everything in the OP's message. I would go further on a few points, such as there was in fact no hole in the ozone layer. (I.e. other than the antarctic one which is natural and eternal). The whole mess was at the time the latest anti-human propaganda campaign. It resulted in the poisoning of millions of people's skin with profitable chemicals and rendered a whole generation grossly Vitamin-D deficient during their developmental years. Modern Western Medicine, while great for trauma and the like, has largely become licensed murder-for-profit. The state of science is dismal, although there is some rallying going on now that makes me quite hopeful.

But never think that there are not armies upon armies of good scientists fighting the good fight. There are. And they are slowly coming out.

A few other lies: DDT is not really toxic (but it was eliminating so much insect-based disease and allowing third world populations to expand and accumulate wealth that it was killed...genocide as usual).

The big bang theory is incorrect, in fact baseless. The desperate stretches of fancy involved in String Theory, Multiverse Theory, dark matter, dark energy, cosmic inflation, are just that: desperate stretches. Smoothness and microwave background irregularities still elude a reasonable explanation. Anomalous Quasars completely knock out the red-shift evidence and demand a new or expanded model of stellar formation. The Plasma Universe models adequately explain all phenomena and they do so very simply and without these fanciful, untestable sci-fi flights of cosmological fancy.

There is massive evidence that life could not possibly have spontaneously generated from natural chemical process (see, among other things, http://www.arn.org/arnproducts/php/video_show_item.php?id=71 re: how the Maillard reaction halts all known pathways dead in their tracks) and some arguments about irreducible complexity are extremely compelling. Darwin's theories about mutation (selection is a real effect, though) do not account for the progression of life on our planet. Intermediate forms are almost completely absent from the fossil record whereas it should consist MAINLY (almost entirely) of these forms and we would have seen them by now as there are about 100 million fossils of 250,000 species now cataloged. The Cambrian explosion of hundreds of thousands of new and novel forms and species and then their sudden disappearance has not and indeed can not be explained by the present theory of gradual evolution. Catastrophism in combination with some sort of intelligent design or intelligent manipulation must be acknowledged as a better fit. (But death to bible-thumping idiots...I wouldn't trust them not to turn our schools into religious indoctrination camps if they could...but still, they are right about Darwinism vs. intelligent design). Panspermia is sort of a dumb model, in terms of it doesn't explain where life first evolved, but I think it likely that microbes do arrive here on meteorites and dust. But it still merely begs the question. The theories of Velikovsky, right or wrong, deserve a full hearing and have instead been viscously suppressed.

Global Warming (man made) is the latest in the: Impending Ice Age; no wait, I mean Ozone depletion; no wait I mean Catastrophic Warming progression of the anti-human blitzkrieg of Cultural Marxism. There is a huge dissenting voice and it is systematically underfunded and abused.

There is no evidence that proves that HIV causes AIDS. Not one single study. Nor has an HIV virus ever been seen, least of all in an AIDS patient. Read Deusberg and others. There is, on the other hand, overwhelming evidence that the HIV virus is an ancient and completely harmless passenger virus. Two things we do know for sure: it's the only virus in the world for which detection of the antibody supposedly doesn't mean you're already immune (!!!) and that the Chemo poison AZT will kill your ass dead, every time.

I regard all of these developments as side-effects of "the humanistic religion", or, if you prefer "cultural Marxism". Eisenhower warned not only of the Military Industrial Complex, but also of the College Industrial Complex, in effect, if you listen to the full-length recording of his speech. Fiat money is at the root of all of this evil and we know where a lot of that is coming from, don't we.

[Wimpy]

Bravo DieDaily!  

[pas]

"DDT not really toxic" I heard of this before but i was probably too brainwashed to research.
Thanks.

[Panoptimist]

Science itself is a Jew lie. Go a bit further back in history.

[Panoptimist]

To ask or search I blame thee not, for heav'n
Is as the book of God before thee set,
Wherein to read his wondrous works, and learn
His seasons, hours, or days, or months, or years:
This to attain, whether heav'n move or Earth,
Imports not, if thou reckon right; the rest
From man or angel the great Architect
Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge
His secrets to be scanned by them who ought
Rather admire; or if they list to try to
Conjecture, he his fabric of the heav'ns
Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move
His laughter at their quaint opinions wide
Hereafter, when they come to model heav'n
And calculate the stars, how they will wield
The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive
To save appearances, how gird the sphere
With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er,
Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb:


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So God is in Heaven right now LAUGHING at the scientists who waste their time trying to formulate some "rational" approach to the "master plan."

[DieDaily]

Scientists who think reason can explain everything are indeed a sad and sorry lot. Anyone who tries for a scientific master plan is a dangerous fool. The scope of science is indeed quite limited, and all the math and theories are just models, not the actual things they try to model. On the other hand, there are more than a few things that only science can do, and within the arena of that set of things, the irrational mind is lost in the abyss, like toddler in a chess match. Most ideas and aspects of the universe might be better explored with non-rational senses, feelings, instincts, intuitions, and other spiritual/religious tools. But NONE of the universe is necessarily irrational. Non-rational yes, absolutely. Irrational no. If you will: God is not a lunatic. The two are not at all the same. Irrational is almost invariably not a good thing. Even non-rational monkeys and insects are not actually irrational.